6/30/2008

You might think this a french impressionist painting ala Monet but NO it's really an exceptionally huge hunk of raw sewage drifting down the Gowanus Canal. As our current weather patterns make it clearly apparant here and everywhere, global warming is upon us. More Rain = More Sewage. * Toll Brothers take note! *Also found along the canal, an uber trendy Badgley Mischka stretch metal couture belt. I wonder what the story is behind this being left here. Disco Reveler from the Yard perhaps?

9 comments:

That is tragic. While there is wild life in canal, it is so sad that it is filled with such awful crud.

With the development on 4th Avenue and potential development on the shores of the Gowanus it is such a recipe for disaster. The Toll Brothers say they are going to install their own sewage system but that is not enough. This area just can't handle it.

This area should be a public park without the luxury condo high rises. A STATE PARK!!!! Not a SPONGE PARK aligning with the developers!!! A STATE PARK! This area can not handle more flushing toilets.

This area has a history with the industrial revolution hence the sorry state it's in. And that should be the FOCUS of the state park if it ever might happen. I have been to Lowell Massachusettes and they have such a park .On the shores of this land has been paint factories, oil processing plants etc. It is a serious brown field, at the moment most of the thriving companies on Bond Street have been moved out in anticipation for condos. Meanwhile our schools are over crowded and we don't even have a supermarket in the neighborhood. I guess they will all get Fresh direct.

It confuses me when our elected officials talk about both (park & condos) . I don't think it can be done.

I think the cozy industrial artist feel of brooklyn is slowly fading..hopefully i'm wrong but with the developing high rises its starting to look more and more like a young teenager conforming to society, giving into peer pressure, changing it's look just to fit in.

We may have Sex in the City to thank for that because it was there they projected to the mass market.."Brooklyn is the new Manhattan"